MAVEN focuses on
hydrogen and oxygen as ways to trace water and carbon dioxide, and neutral argon as a way to measure the sheer volume of atmosphere loss.
Alas, using radio waves to tap
hydrogen and oxygen as a combustible source of energy is inefficient, and scientists have so far been unable to adapt the process for energy production.
Not exact matches
As a business, Planetary Resources is betting that by the time it extracts water from an asteroid, there will be a customer like NASA interested in buying water,
hydrogen and oxygen.
Heaven is that planet 35000 light - years from earth, ten times
as big made of
hydrogen and oxygen for water, gold
as atmosphere (yes we're taking the gold) But to desist
as soul when given the chance in hell if you truly believe seems impassible for me to fathom.
That is a very dry world to live in...
as far
as theory is concerned it is
as enigmatic
as religous beliefs... Example 2
hydrogen and on
oxygen make water... it is proven fact.
Physics is sufficiently advanced today to define many substances very perfectly, in their very essence, in terms of those causes which constitute them,
and in this we see that the active relationship by which, let us say,
oxygen and hydrogen are defined
as causes of water in a given relativity, is an active potency in those causes of dynamic finality with respect to the composite substance which is water.
They require food such
as hydrogen,
oxygen,
and other elements to sustain their life.
Is it the same kind of language
as that in which we say, «The battle of Hastings was fought in 1066» or «Water is composed of
oxygen and hydrogen»?
Oxygen Bleach - Using a hydrogen peroxide process to whiten and disinfect, oxygen bleach is very effective and works as a great substitute for chlorine b
Oxygen Bleach - Using a
hydrogen peroxide process to whiten
and disinfect,
oxygen bleach is very effective and works as a great substitute for chlorine b
oxygen bleach is very effective
and works
as a great substitute for chlorine bleach.
«One of the proposed scenarios,» comments Romano Corradi, director of the GTC
and another of the authors «is the presence of a component in the gas which is different from that which we normally find, poor in
hydrogen and rich in heavier elements such
as oxygen and carbon.
There are basically two types of lines, those produced by collisions between the atoms or ions
and the electrons in the surrounding gas, which are called collision lines,
and which are very bright for elements such
as oxygen, nitrogen
and neon,
and lines which are produced when ions capture free electrons, which are called recombination lines,
and which are bright only for those gases with the highest abundances in the interstellar medium:
hydrogen and helium.
Kesterites acting
as photocatalysts might be able to split water into
hydrogen and oxygen using sunlight,
and to store solar energy in the form of chemical energy,» explains Schorr.
Like
hydrogen,
oxygen,
and iodine, nitrogen normally exists
as two - atom molecules in the form of a gas at room temperature.
At high heat, the cladding interacts with the surrounding water vapor, binding tightly to the
oxygen and freeing the
hydrogen, which escapes
as a gas.
Under pressure
and heat, the dead creatures» long chains of
hydrogen,
oxygen,
and carbon - bearing molecules, known
as polymers, decompose into short - chain petroleum hydrocarbons.
The technique could be used
as a detection sensor for
hydrogen or
oxygen gases
as well
as for property controls of organic semiconductors
and organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs).
What differentiates this process from tradition biofuel production is the infusion of
hydrogen — it removes the dilutive
oxygen that most biofuels contain, leaving only the combustible isoparaffins
and paraffins, which are indistinguishable from the molecules in refined petroleum.The only byproduct of the process is propane, which can be reintroduced into the production loop
as a source of
hydrogen.
Above 1300 degrees, the iron oxides will begin to crack,
and the
oxygen will combine with the
hydrogen, flashing off
as water vapor.
The finding that cerium oxide may grab
hydrogen as well
as oxygen is promising for efforts to engineer it to catalyze both reactions that cause electron gain («reduction» of a reactant)
and electron loss («oxidation»).
Once the nanoparticles are added
and light applied, the water separates into
hydrogen and oxygen almost immediately, producing twice
as much
hydrogen as oxygen,
as expected from the 2:1
hydrogen to
oxygen ratio in H2O water molecules, Bao said.
Proteins, similar to carbohydrates
and lipids, are made up of such elements
as carbon,
hydrogen and oxygen.
And if hydrogen is fed into a fuel - cell stack — a batterylike device that generates electricity from hydrogen and oxygen — it can propel an electric car or truck with only water and heat as by - products [see «On the Road to Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 200
And if
hydrogen is fed into a fuel - cell stack — a batterylike device that generates electricity from
hydrogen and oxygen — it can propel an electric car or truck with only water and heat as by - products [see «On the Road to Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 200
and oxygen — it can propel an electric car or truck with only water
and heat as by - products [see «On the Road to Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 200
and heat
as by - products [see «On the Road to Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 2005].
Compared with other key elements of life — such
as oxygen,
hydrogen and carbon — molecular nitrogen is very stable.
Kourosh Kalantar - Zadeh, an engineer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia,
and his colleagues built plastic capsules about 2.5 centimeters long — about
as long
as a Jolly Rancher hard candy — that sniff out carbon dioxide,
hydrogen and oxygen gas molecules in the gut.
Using excess energy from renewable energy resources such
as solar
and wind to split water into
oxygen and hydrogen — a process called electrolysis — could be the best solution for creating large supplies of sustainable
hydrogen fuel.
«
As in our own atmosphere, where ultraviolet sunlight breaks molecules apart, ultraviolet starlight can break water vapour in the atmospheres of exoplanets into
hydrogen and oxygen.»
Asteroids also contain an abundance of water, which, aside from serving
as hydration during space travel, could be used
as a shield to protect spaceships from the sun's radiation or to produce
hydrogen -
and oxygen - based rocket fuels.
The
hydrogen replaces
oxygen in the acids
and other compounds in the bio-oils
and makes them less corrosive,
and the zeolites break the large hydrocarbons into compounds such
as toluene
and benzene that are commonly used building blocks for a large number of industrial chemicals.
The use of liquid
hydrogen and liquid
oxygen as propellant is an integral part of the entire Mars Base Camp (MBC) architecture, the company representatives said.
Atoms of most elements, such
as hydrogen,
oxygen and carbon, form tight chemical bonds by sharing electrons with their neighbours in order to give each atom a stable configuration of electrons.
Fuel Cells Electricity from any source, such
as solar, wind
and even coal, can be used to break up water molecules into their
hydrogen and oxygen components in a device called an electrolyzer.
The researchers discovered that these catalysts — copper in the form of a white salt
and the ligand
as an oil — can oxidize C - H bonds in a very efficient way in combination with
hydrogen peroxide, a reduced form of
oxygen that nature uses.
They also used satellite precipitation data to «backsolve» the brine's origins using sodium concentrations,
oxygen and hydrogen isotopes,
as the isotopic composition of water reflects the condensation temperature
and precipitation rate over time.
In observations obtained at the William Herschel Telescope in the Canary Islands, the University of Warwick astronomers detected a large quantity of
hydrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere of a white dwarf (known
as SDSS J1242 +5226).
As caterpillars grow, they take on a characteristic chemical signature of the environment, with
hydrogen,
oxygen and other elements fixed in tissues in varying amounts.
Using spectral readings from telescopes at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, Hand has found high levels of oxidative chemicals such
as sulfate,
oxygen, sulfur dioxide
and hydrogen peroxide on Europa's surface, which are produced
as ionizing radiation from Jupiter scours it, splitting apart water molecules
and sulfur compounds in the uppermost layers of its ice.
Water could also be split into
hydrogen and oxygen for use
as rocket fuel.
Using the energy of the sun, they break the water molecules apart
and use the
hydrogen to create organic compounds like carbohydrates, leaving
oxygen behind
as a by - product.
Cortright
and chemical engineer James Dumesic discovered in their university lab back in 2001 that by starting with water
and various carbohydrates from plants — basically, carbon,
hydrogen and oxygen compounds —
and using catalysts, heat
and pressure, they could start creating CO2
and hydrogen and then use that
hydrogen to eliminate the
oxygen as water (the process produces more water than it consumes).
As the water boiled away, the
hydrogen escaped into interstellar space while the
oxygen came back down
and bonded with carbon atoms.
If there were too much UV light, no water could survive on the surface because the water molecules would break up
and escape through the top of the atmosphere
as hydrogen and oxygen gas.
The
oxygen is given off,
and the
hydrogen is ultimately incorporated into sugars that the plant stores
as fuel.
That's because the core of making jet biofuel is much the same
as the core of making conventional fuel: hydroprocessing, or the adding of
hydrogen to existing hydrocarbons in order to remove
oxygen and other impurities
as well
as build the right molecule.
The shuttle is comprised of three components: the orbiter (the aeroplane - like crew -
and cargo - carrying craft that most people think of
as the shuttle); a large external tank (ET) that holds the liquid
oxygen and liquid
hydrogen fuel;
and two solid rocket boosters (SRBs) packed with powdered aluminium
and rubber fuel.
The fungus makes the chelator
and produces
hydrogen peroxide from
oxygen,
and together they start to digest the cell wall into the sugar found in the basic building block of wood, glucose, which the fungus can use
as food.
When ammonia plants first came online in the 1940s, most used water
as their source of
hydrogen; energy - intensive electrolysis decoupled the
hydrogen and oxygen.
Stars are made mostly of
hydrogen and helium, but they also contain trace amounts of other elements, such
as carbon,
oxygen, iron,
and even more exotic substances.
Today, most phosphorus enters the world's ecosystems
as granite
and other rocks weather over time, releasing the molecule orthophosphate: a phosphorus atom linked to a
hydrogen and four
oxygens.
Mangrove rivulus, which can live out of the water for extended periods of time (days or weeks,
as long
as the conditions are moist), uses its specialised jumping technique when water has low
oxygen concentrations or high levels of
hydrogen sulphide, or to escape predators
and search for terrestrial prey such
as crickets.
The findings: carbon,
hydrogen,
oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur
and phosphorous — key ingredients for life — plus chemicals such
as sulfur dioxide
and hydrogen sulfide that could provide energy for microorganisms.